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Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on NAS
2013-11-25 14:33:11
For the what it’s worth dept: I’ve got an old dual core Pentium D 3.0 system, 2g ram running a 1TB BackupPC volume (going to be upgraded to software raid-1) backing up 41 PC’s. Since I don’t backup during open hours (M-F, 7am-5pm) I have the luxury of using Clonezilla and an eSata external drive cradle to backup my BackupPC volume. It takes roughly 4-5 hours depending on the pool size at the time. Works well for me. Richard BackupPC Info: (Just reboot after a backup 30 minutes ago) - The servers PID is 1822, on host BackupPC, version 3.2.1, started at 11/25 12:43.
- This status was generated at 11/25 14:09.
- The configuration was last loaded at 11/25 12:43.
- PCs will be next queued at 11/25 17:00.
- Other info:
- 0 pending backup requests from last scheduled wakeup,
- 0 pending user backup requests,
- 0 pending command requests,
- Pool is 514.62GB comprising 1908980 files and 4369 directories (as of 11/24 18:37),
- Pool hashing gives 1865 repeated files with longest chain 14,
- Nightly cleanup removed 18218 files of size 20.80GB (around 11/24 18:37),
- Pool file system was recently at 63% (11/25 14:03), today's max is 65% (11/24 15:00) and yesterday's max was 66%.
--- Richard Zimmerman IT Manager River Bend Hose Specialty, Inc. 1111 S Main Street South Bend, IN 46601-3337 (574) 233-1133 (574) 280-7284 Fax From: Kris Lou [mailto:klou AT themusiclink DOT net]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 12:27 PM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc on NAS BackupPC has been installed on QNAP devices (http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/How_to_install_the_BackupPC_application), but there's a very real chance that bi-monthly firmware upgrades will break it. That and the fact that we're waiting for QNAP to upgrade some packages to close some security holes means that it wasn't worth it for me to sit on a particular firmware for a long period of time. My BackupPC server (dedicated old hardware) writes the pool to a NFS-mounted share on the NAS. All of the things that Arnold mentioned apply ... in all honesty, I sometimes feel that it would be better to just take an old desktop box, dump a bunch of 3TB+ drives in, set up a software raid and let it do it's thing. It'd certainly be cheaper. Heck, for the price of some of these NAS's, you can build your 2nd server to backup your primary BackupPC server.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:37 AM, zdravko <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote: Any suggestions which NAS has a "real" useful Linux, so that backupPC could be installed? My thought was to run backuppc on NAS, so it is not dependent on user clients. It can even chase clients to backup them while being on. Another issue would be how to slow down backing up clients, so people can work normally on their machines during backup. NAS could backup itself at full speed, of course. Even using some extra, cheap NAS only for backup seems useful. |
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